David

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Two news articles in one day, what is this sorcery? 
 
I am here for the second time today, to announce our new dedicated PVP server on EU #4! Previously only used for testing purposes, this server is being rolled out 24/7 to host a mission which is widely referred to, as the best PVP mission. Some of you may remember it from ArmA 2, it's Warfare Benny edition!
 
For those that haven't played this before, it's a variation of CTI. You spawn in at the start of the mission in a random location with only a handful of vehicles including a command vehicle, a player from each side then gets voted as their team commander and they then lead their team (that's the idea anyway). You then all head off with the command vehicle to a location where the commander decides to place your base, the ideal balance of under cover but with the possibility for later expansion (helicopters etc). The two teams then battle it out to capture so far unclaimed towns from the locals until they own X% of the map.
 
Oh and one more thing:
 

 
The server is up as of now, 16 players per side and each side has 3 different TeamSpeak channels to utilize. If any of you run into problems while using the mission or have any feedback, please let us know!

I guess you mean a civ slot? Although not realistic I'll see if it can be done. I'm cconcerned that it could be a distraction.

I guess you mean a civ slot? Although not realistic I'll see if it can be done. I'm cconcerned that it could be a distraction.

Two news articles in one day, what is this sorcery? 
 
I am here for the second time today, to announce our new dedicated PVP server on EU #4! Previously only used for testing purposes, this server is being rolled out 24/7 to host a mission which is widely referred to, as the best PVP mission. Some of you may remember it from ArmA 2, it's Warfare Benny edition!
 
For those that haven't played this before, it's a variation of CTI. You spawn in at the start of the mission in a random location with only a handful of vehicles including a command vehicle, a player from each side then gets voted as their team commander and they then lead their team (that's the idea anyway). You then all head off with the command vehicle to a location where the commander decides to place your base, the ideal balance of under cover but with the possibility for later expansion (helicopters etc). The two teams then battle it out to capture so far unclaimed towns from the locals until they own X% of the map.
 
Oh and one more thing:
 

 
The server is up as of now, 16 players per side and each side has 3 different TeamSpeak channels to utilize. If any of you run into problems while using the mission or have any feedback, please let us know!

Two news articles in one day, what is this sorcery? 
 
I am here for the second time today, to announce our new dedicated PVP server on EU #4! Previously only used for testing purposes, this server is being rolled out 24/7 to host a mission which is widely referred to, as the best PVP mission. Some of you may remember it from ArmA 2, it's Warfare Benny edition!
 
For those that haven't played this before, it's a variation of CTI. You spawn in at the start of the mission in a random location with only a handful of vehicles including a command vehicle, a player from each side then gets voted as their team commander and they then lead their team (that's the idea anyway). You then all head off with the command vehicle to a location where the commander decides to place your base, the ideal balance of under cover but with the possibility for later expansion (helicopters etc). The two teams then battle it out to capture so far unclaimed towns from the locals until they own X% of the map.
 
Oh and one more thing:
 

 
The server is up as of now, 16 players per side and each side has 3 different TeamSpeak channels to utilize. If any of you run into problems while using the mission or have any feedback, please let us know!

Two news articles in one day, what is this sorcery? 
 
I am here for the second time today, to announce our new dedicated PVP server on EU #4! Previously only used for testing purposes, this server is being rolled out 24/7 to host a mission which is widely referred to, as the best PVP mission. Some of you may remember it from ArmA 2, it's Warfare Benny edition!
 
For those that haven't played this before, it's a variation of CTI. You spawn in at the start of the mission in a random location with only a handful of vehicles including a command vehicle, a player from each side then gets voted as their team commander and they then lead their team (that's the idea anyway). You then all head off with the command vehicle to a location where the commander decides to place your base, the ideal balance of under cover but with the possibility for later expansion (helicopters etc). The two teams then battle it out to capture so far unclaimed towns from the locals until they own X% of the map.
 
Oh and one more thing:
 

 
The server is up as of now, 16 players per side and each side has 3 different TeamSpeak channels to utilize. If any of you run into problems while using the mission or have any feedback, please let us know!

Some of you may have noticed that we've recently been down to 32 slots and regularly been full. The reason for this is because teamspeak decided to change the terms of the non profit licence, because of this we were no longer valid and using the non profit key on the server would stop it from running (the recent downtime). We've now got another licence and we're up to 128 slots

Some of you may have noticed that we've recently been down to 32 slots and regularly been full. The reason for this is because teamspeak decided to change the terms of the non profit licence, because of this we were no longer valid and using the non profit key on the server would stop it from running (the recent downtime). We've now got another licence and we're up to 128 slots

Or in some cases the stupid script kiddie actually confides his evil deeds to someone else who then rats him out.
 
But fear not, I've been hearing of people running hacks that actually steal their CD-key rendering their game useless.

We've been dealing with it all evening, don't worry.
 
Oh.. and we just nailed him
 
Unfortunately in a hack, there's no way to identify who it is unless it stops at the exact moment you kick somebody. The only way to find who is by comparing the player list with a previous hack(s) and people who are not moving (could be typing).
 
We do our best. Maybe if we can get every single player to run due north in the event of a hack we can narrow it down to the only one not moving? Sounds great apart from how do we convince everyone to do it?

I'm surprised no other admin has posted here...
We do know about it and we are working on it, it's different than simply restarting the server, we know that much. Stay tuned!

In addition to raz's post, I'm told hard hats prevent falling containers from killing you, if they had those on then crack on.

I'll do my best to investigate this and see if we can sort it out

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From what is described it doesn't sound like player behaviour, it's far too consistent

In addition to raz's post, I'm told hard hats prevent falling containers from killing you, if they had those on then crack on.

In addition to raz's post, I'm told hard hats prevent falling containers from killing you, if they had those on then crack on.

1. In the early days of I&A people would jump vehicles onto the roof of our main building. I jumped one up to bring 2 other ones down. This would've worked perfectly except I went too fast, skidded off the other end straight into a fully loaded helicopter which exploded, total dead was about 20.
2. During a gamenight we were in two fireteams, we met up half way through as our medic had died. After meeting up we immediately came under fire, I got down to check my gear and accidentally threw a grenade. Guess where it landed? The only remaining medic. Mission failed.

Dave, you should clean you car, there is grass hanging from you bumper.

What's next?
 

Admins still need briefing on handling the server, but there will be after then.

It's the summer holidays so as well as forest fires we also have lots of idiots on our servers and because we have a limited number of admins we need your help in making ahoyworld a pleasant experience for everyone.

So picture this:
Player A is a regular player but doesn't use teamspeak (TS)
Player B is also a regular player and is on TS
Player C well he's just a troublemaker!

So player C teamkills several players over a few minutes.

Player A notices this and doesn't like what he sees so he asks in side chat:
"Any Admin on? Player C is tking!"

If an admin is on he will know immediately who to look for and what player c is up to.

If no admin is on Player B who's on TS can poke an admin and let him know. But it's vital that you pass on the correct information. Something like "tker on eu1" or "you need to ban player c" leaves us with very little info to go on and requires a bit of investigation. Whereas something like "Player C is tking on EU1" lets us know who is doing what.

Sometimes an admin will do the admin magic remotely and may ask for confirmation in side chat. It's up to you the player base to help us admin so if you say that Player C was tking and you see an admin asking for confirmation, help them out and just type confirm in side chat.

Check the map to see if he's in a vehicle it may be the gunner who's doing the tking and the driver being reported so let us know before we kick the wrong person.

Important Notes:
Don't TK in self defense or retaliation, ever! I have in the past kicked the person who was, in fact, the reporter of the tk. He had tk'd the tker just after I joined the game and as i only had limited information i just kicked the first person i saw tking.

Please don't tell us to ban someone, tell us who is doing what so we can investigate it properly, it's quite distracting when we someone saying 'ban him' in side chat when we're still trying to figure out what's happening.

There was a story on PC Gamer about an Arma 2 video having an awesome "cinematic ending". 
 
I figured it was worth a watch and man... the last 15 minutes or so really are awesome!
 

Hi everyone, my name is alganthe and i'm probably the one who played the most with uavs on I&A.
I'm here today to help you, scrubs, to use the uavs efficiently.
 
It's pretty simple but you need to know it, i'll cut the guide in 4 parts.
1: connecting and taking off
2: standard bombing
3: in depth use
4 troubleshooting
 
1: connecting and taking off
 
 The thing you need to know about uavs on I&A is that they spawn WITHOUT CREWS INSIDE THEM
so even if the vehicle is present, IT'S EMPTY.
 
to place a crew inside a freshly spawned uav / ugv and take off  you need to :
Get to the pc area at base on your left when you respawn. Press the cycle crew button (pc on the left) and then KILL YOURSELF it's important, it prevent some bugs (only you as uav operator can see the option, you need to do it yourself everytime a uav respawn) connect to the desired uav and then REALLY IMPORTANT take control of the TURRET (gunner). wait 5 seconds so the engine start to run. release control of the uav, wait 3s and take control of the UAV (driver). taxi to the runways, put your flaps down and take off  
simple eh ?
 
2: standard bombing
 
you have 2 ways to bomb, locking on a laser painted target, or divebombing
on this guide I'll cover only the first one.
 
To bomb you need to:
 
Have someone lasing with a laser designator the attachement doesn't work. that person need to keep the lase steady come in a direction where the target and the laser is visible (no obstacle in front) thoses are what you need to be able to release your gbus, here is how I bomb:
 
I climb high enough to not get shot by AAA (over 1 000m) I come from the right direction previously given by the person who is lasing I switch to manual fire I then press R when i'm seeing red dots on my radar and that I know i'm approaching the target I then fly over and wait till the diamond / circle appear (depends on how you drop it) then I release my gbu  
3 in depth
 
there is some things you need to know about the uavs
it's possible to lock the turret on a direction by pressing CTRL+T
it's also possible to lock on a target by pressing CTRL+T on it (useful for lasing moving targets from the sky)
 
the best way to lase something yourself is to :
Placing a loiter waypoint by pressing shift+right click then waypoint type then loiter. change the altitude to 2 000m. when the uav is in poistion switch to the gunner seat. lock the target with CTRL+T and lase it.  
4 troubleshooting
 
I don't have any uav : wait for them to respawn (place a darter at the hangars to see if they're here) I see my uavs but I can't connect to them : cycle the uav crew / respawn my uav just exploded : it might happen if you don't follow this guide or if you teamkilled (sometimes they do it because they want to) my uav is not following my waypoints : It happens when the server is running for a long time, wait 5 minutes if the uav keep ignoring waypoints the server needs a restart I can't see when i'm around 1500 1600m why ? : don't forget to increase the view distance in the scroll wheel option (settings) AND in your video options.  
 
short version for lazy readers and the mission
 

how to use uavs:

1.Get to the pc area at base (look left after you respawned)

2.Press the cycle crew button (pc on the left) and then kill yourself (do it everytime you loose a uav to prevent explosions)

3.connect to the  uav and then  take control of the TURRET (gunner).

4.wait 5 seconds so the engine start.

5.release control of the uav, wait 3s and take control of the UAV (driver).

when a uav is empty repeat the previous steps
 
by alganthe

To not address the politics (as it is this simple, if we didn't want them in, we would remove them, just like we do with mortar bags and limiting classes)
 
I will instead address the mechanics
 
ALL I&A releases as of current are set to july, this has been the case dating as far back on my records (28th April 2013)
 
Try again sir! ;-)
 
could you perhaps posts some screenshots so I know exactly what you mean?
We will fix it together <3
 
 
EDIT: whoops, just got in touch with an admin, he changed the month for weather testing purposes, and that is limited to an _c version